Brewing and Distilling Yeasts

1. Introduction.- 2. History of brewing and distilling yeast.- 3. Taxonomy of brewing and distilling yeasts and methods of identification.- 4. Yeast culture collections, strain maintenance and propagation.- 5. The structure and function of the yeast cell wall, plasma membrane and periplasm.- 6. Energy metabolism by the yeast cell.- 7. Yeast nutrition.- 8. Yeast viability and vitality.- 9. Bioethanol.- 10. Killer (Zymocidal) yeasts.- 11. Stress effects on yeast during brewing and distilling fermentations - high gravity effects.- 12. Yeast management.- 13. Harvesting and cropping yeast - yeast flocculation and centrifugation.- 14. Yeast ethanol toxicity in distilling.- 15. Flavour production by yeast.- 16. Yeast genetic manipulation.- 17. Non-Saccharomyces (and bacteria) yeasts that produce ethanol Epilogue.